No I don't think the average person could eat the fruit from the tree and enjoy, perhaps the people who enjoy wild fruit, eccentrics and die hard home wine makers would though. They seem more acceptable than most citranges, but i haven't eaten a whole one. The juice is interesting. It is passable Citrus juice. A forum member from Germany(I think) posted about his Swingle seedling fruit, saying they were pretty bad tasting, so perhaps climate is influential in fruit flavor, or seedlings are more variable than these examples.
I would probably guess it is climate.